Hongqi will launch its first battery EV this year. In 2020, Hongqi will launch sales of battery EVs developed on FME platform that will have a range of 600 kilometers. By 2025, Hongqi will introduce a total of 15 electric models.

In terms of intelligent and autonomous vehicle devleopment, FAW will mass product Hongqi vehicles with L3 self-driving features in 2019, and mass produce vehicles with L4 self-driving features in 2020. By 2025, FAW will introduce vehicles with L5 self-driving function”

It is unfortunately true that over half of electricity in China comes from coal, and even worse that it’s mostly soft brown coal, which is even more polluting than hard black coal.

On the plus side, looking to the future, China is the only country which is actively working to develop 4th generation LFTR nuclear power plants. For decades, and until recently, France got about 90% if its electricity from nuclear power. We can hope China will soon follow France’s example! Commercial nuclear power is the only currently available, fully developed technology which can provide dependable, clean, non-polluting power, day or night, rain or shine, 24/7/365, in just about any place in the world.

This is one place (perhaps the only place) where I hope first-world countries wind up copying and producing tech from China… instead of the reverse!